Country Info
- Amman
- Capital
- Jordanian Dinar (JOD)
- Currency
- 5,153,378
- Population
- JO
- Country Code
Jordan Slideshow
Top Hotels in Jordan
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Jordan Suites Amman
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Crystal Hotel Aqaba
21 reviews -
My Hotel Aqaba
74 reviews -
Peace Way Hotel Wadi Musa
6 reviews -
Al Joude Hotel Irbid
12 reviews -
Middle East Hotel Amman
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Domina Aqaba III
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Al Zawaideh Desert Camp at Wadi Rum
16 reviews
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Irbid Plaza Hotel
5 reviews
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Granada Hotel Jordan Amman
22 reviews
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Dweik 2 Aqaba
4 reviews
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Wadi Rum Zeltcamps
2 reviews
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Petra Moon Hotel Wadi Musa
172 reviews -
San Rock Hotel Amman
18 reviews
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Retaj Hotel Amman
13 reviews
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Queen Ayola Hotel Madaba
50 reviews
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Al-Azraq Hotel & Resthouse
10 reviews
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Petra Palace Hotel Wadi Musa
186 reviews
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Ocean Hotel Amman
4 reviews
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Dana Guest House
43 reviews
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Petra Panorama Hotel Wadi Musa
96 reviews
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Valley Stars Inn Wadi Musa
127 reviews
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Canary Hotel Amman
26 reviews
Jordan
Travel Blogs from Jordan
Joyful Jordan
This is a top pick! ... . I walked passed Nargila ( Middle Eastern Water pipes ) shops and Shawarma vendors and was showered with greetings. "Welcome to Jordan!" every second Jordanian shouted. The sun was now a warm soothing orange and I dropped down on the rocky rubble ...
Welcome to Jordan!
This is a top pick! We planned to take a bus directly from Nazareth to Amman in Jordan. We knew that the bus only left three times a week, but no one seemed to know from where. There was no bus station in Nazareth, just a central bus stop, but people seemed to ...
Indiana Jones and the Lost City of Petra
This is a top pick! ... is an amazing city, the modern town of Wadi Musa leaves a lot to be desired. Unlike most of the rest of Jordan, tourism has really corrupted this place. Tourists with more time then money on day trips from Israel have driven up prices and ...
Boiling on the coast
This is a top pick! When we finally made it to Aqaba on the coast, and our last stop in Jordan, we were tired, sandy, sweaty, and in desperate need of a shower. Aqaba was known as a diving/beach town, but it was more expensive then Egypt and all we wanted to do was ...
Wadi Rum Cont'd
This is a top pick! ... are being built for one of the major holding companies of the country. However, there are no complete skyscrapers yet. Jordan is lightyears ahead of Syria. The infrastructure is well-developed, streets are clean and the balance between the Islamists ...
Amman
This is a top pick! ... delicious Western food at a slickly decorated restaurant. The change that took place as I was moving from Syria to Jordan happened gradually. The villages on the outskirts looked just like Syrian villages with their infertile lands, stone houses and ...
Madaba All Over Again
This is a top pick! ... us that they were thinking about opening branches in cities other than Amman. This NGO is another prime example that differentiates Jordan from most of its neighbours. I very much doubt that such efficient NGOs could exist in Syria. Had lunch/dinner ...
Madaba
This is a top pick! ... incomplete. The priest told me that there were 20,000 Christians and 60,000 Muslims living in Madaba. He added that 6% of Jordan was Christian. After St. George's, went into the Protestant church right next door. For some dumb reason, I expect ...
Wadi rum day from hell 5am start to catch a ...
This is a top pick! ... brick wall which would have had a lean-to roof on top. We had to rush away from Wadi Rum to catch the ferry from Aqaba in Jordan tro Nuweiba in Egypt which was a shame as a couple of nights in the desert would have been great. The ferry was at 3 ...
Petra and Wadi Rum
This is a top pick! ... were totally exhausted at the end of the day.....but it was worth it! The next day I found out that we could take a ferry from Jordan to Egypt instead of going back through Israel. So we high tailed it out of Petra and back 2 hours to the port to catch ...
Hi all still alive sorry for lack of ...
This is a top pick! ... De Chevaliers, Palmyra (best ruins yet and i've seen a few), Damascus which was a bit too big but had impressive mosques. Into Jordan but it is so expensive I'm bolting through it and currently in Wadi Musa to visit city of Petra (carved city at the ...
Amman All Over Again
This is a top pick! ... family who owns the Arab Bank. To me, King's Academy and Darat al-Funun are the prime evidence proving the level of development Jordan has achieved. Rush hour traffic was quite dense, but the tunnels work quite well. If you take the tunnels, you go below ...
Wadi Rum
This is a top pick! ... and one of the Bedouins, Salah, is the boyfriend of a close friend of Diana's. The Bedouin tradition seems to be dying in Jordan. Most of them no longer live in camps, bur rather in villages. The camps are mostly used for touristic purposes. The new ...
Took the bus from damascus straight to ...
This is a top pick! Took the bus from Damascus straight to Amman and got a service taxi from Amman down to Ma musa to visit Petra. 3 of us split the fare which came to about 8pounds each for a 3hr run which was ok. Bit over budget and the driver was a bit of a diddy and ...
Petra
This is a top pick! ... , there was a store selling products from the women's cooperation. Diana picked me up from the bus station. By the way, Jordan needs a proper station. The so-called Abdali Station in Amman consists of a road with bus company offices on both sides. When ...
Dabke Redux
Perhaps a few more words should be said about the dabke...aka دبكة. Dabke is a very popular style of Arab folk dance. If you have spent anytime in the Arab world of in Arab communities in other countries you have certainly ...
Sorry, I'm not into Chicks
... the Dead Sea Scrolls. When the were found the land was Jordanian, now it is in Isreal. The only scroll that Jordan retains is the copper one, the rest were made out of papyrus. These scrolls are a treasure map. Currently there are ...
Leaving Amman
... sheltered me well. I went to the Embassy again and also had no luck with the visa. Apparently they only give visas to citizens of Jordan. One of the Hajj agencies said they could get me a visa for a huge sum of money but it didnt sound legit plus I dont ...
Becoming Lawrence of Arabia
... was again amazing food. They had some pretty good tuna salad, but nothing too terribly special since all the food in Jordan was amazing [you'll see this trend]. We left at around 1:30 and headed off to Little Petra before hitting the ...
Wadi Rum
Some of the most beautiful landscape I've every seen. The 2 Greeks', George and Dimitri (who I met on the overnight ferry experience), and me got a taxi to Wadi Rum (4 JD each, 1hr) and spent a night in a Bedouin (desert people) camp and did a ...
The Rıng of Fıre
... 'ng for the Hydrofoıl to cross the Red Sea, Aqaba seemed lıke a whole new world. Fırst ımpressıons of Jordan? Clean, modern, fabulous food and a gorgeous hotel. We were clearly ın the desert and could see Israel from across ...
Butter Lamb AKA Lamb Butter
Just taking a minute to research butter lambs and whether or not I can find one in Amman for Easter. The answer is probably no but I did find a website that shows how to make your very own butter lamb! Awww yea! In my research I learned something really ...
Eid Vacation
Word to the wise (and any government officials following this detail oriented blog): I am heading off today with DeVan, Adib, and his from Mo (guess what that's short for) to vaca in Syria. I am super excited and lest people feel nervous I have been ...
the road to petra
... ;Treasury (the famous photo) and the high place of sacrifice offered an impressive view of the area. the main downside to jordan coming from say turkey or syria is that most of the tourist sites IE wadi rum and the dead sea can be difficult ...
The Bird Cage
Travelblog 6 - The Bird Cage - 3/30/05 My hours are totally screwed up. I've had jet lag before, but never of this magnitude. I went to bed at 11:00 pm, but when I open one eye to check the clock, I'm shocked to see that it's 2:00 in the afternoon. ...
